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Topic: Die Hard In A Die Hard

Die Hard fans of the original Die hard movie decided to murder Bruce Willis to keep him from making another Die Hard, to that end they take Emma Heming hostage and trap Willis on the set of Die Hard 19, Die Hardest.

Re: Die Hard In A Die Hard

I'd like to be all Mr. Admin over here and say "hey, that's not in the spirit of this board!"

...but, I think that could be this decade's Galaxy Quest, because that's really funny. So I challenge the following comments to plot out acts one through three, and fill it with awesome Die Hard jokes. Let's do this.

Re: Die Hard In A Die Hard

Well, obviously Act 1 is pretty much the same. Starts with Bruce on an airplane, headed to the wrap party for DIE HARDEST in LA. He gets there, argues with his wife, and then the fans attack. And because it's a Galaxy Quest thing, they've meticulously created a situation that exactly mirrors the plot of the original Die Hard. Bruce gets isolated right off the bat.

Re: Die Hard In A Die Hard

Yep, the key to making it work is keeping Bruce as the protagonist and the insane fans as the bad guys. We learn early on that Bruce is just doing these sequels for the money and hates them creatively, but maybe add a bunch of ex-wives he has to make payments to to help justify why he's doing these movies and keep him sympathetic. I think JCVD is a really good template for how you would do this movie (in that case Jean Claude is doing movies he hates so he can fund his divorce lawyer to try to keep custody of his daughter): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z_6UfkQ-c0

Along the lines of Doc Subs point, the fans would intentionally dress up as the various different henchmen from die hard to mimic the scenario, so you'd have the german brothers, the token asian dude, and their lead doing an Alan Rickman imitation. They let Bruce escape initially to follow the setup of the movie, but their plan is to kill off the fiction of Die Hard once and for all by forcing the ending to play out different, namely Bruce failing and getting killed, aka Dieing Hardest.

Of course Bruce the actor ends up being more resourceful than they predicted, hence Act 2.